Dean Andrew Perlman included among U.S. legal profession’s “courageous innovators.”
Andrew Perlman, dean of the Law School, has been named to the Fastcase 50—one of the nation’s preeminent honors for the “smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.” Each year, the Fastcase 50 shines a spotlight on...
Experience with Legal Technology Jump-starts Career
A week out of Suffolk University Law School, Michael Eidlin was working as a consultant to a law firm and devising a program to cut the time and expense required for a routine legal task. Eidlin, who graduated in May 2015 was taking the first step on the career...
Updates from the Institute
Fall Semester 2014 Legal Technology and Innovation Concentration. In October 2013, Suffolk Law’s faculty unanimously approved a new Legal Technology and Innovation concentration, creating one of the first formal programs in the country to equip J.D. students with the...
Suffolk Hosts Legal Hackathon with Keynote by LSC President Jim Sandman
Legal Services Corporation President Jim Sandman got the hackathon off to a terrific start today with an inspiring speech.
ABA Journal/Suffolk Law “Hackcess to Justice” Registration and Rules
The hackathon will focus on access to justice issues and is only a couple of months away. You can find more information about the "hackcess to justice," including registration and rules, here. $3,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winners.
Suffolk at the MIT Legal Hackathon
MIT is hosting a legal hackathon between June 12 and 14. Details are here. I'm delighted that Gabe Teninbaum and I will be running a session at the event relating to the drafting of effective legal language. You can learn more here and here.
The Most Important Knowledge and Skills for Recent Law Grads
Professor Neil Hamilton recently posted Changing Markets Create Opportunities: Emphasizing the Competencies Legal Employers Use in Hiring New Lawyers (Including Professional Formation/Professionalism) on SSRN. Here's the absract: To guide legal educators and...
SeRiouS: an LPTI-supported Project to Improve Students’ Learning and Bar Performance
This post is by Prof. Gabe Teninbaum, a Suffolk Law faculty member who teaches Legal Practice Skills, Negotiation, and, beginning in the fall of 2014, Lawyering in the Age of Smart Machines (a core course in the LPTI Concentration). Gabe is also a frequent...
Protecting Client Confidences in a Digital Age: The Case of the NSA
The following item originally appeared on Jurist: Protecting client confidences used to be so much easier. Lawyers could place sensitive documents in a locked file cabinet behind a locked office door, and that pretty much did the trick. Today, the protection of...
ABA Taps Dean to Lead Next Wave
As Chair of the ABA Center for Innovation’s Governing Council, Dean Andrew Perlman is helping a team of legal tech innovators rethink the practice of law. The American Bar Association (ABA) has tapped Suffolk Law Dean Andrew Perlman to help lead a new Center...
Suffolk Law Students are Creating Apps to Promote Access to Justice
In Lawyering in the Age of Smart Machines, Suffolk Law students create software applications, which are typically focused on promoting access to justice. Below, Vedika Mehera describes her app, which she recently completed under the supervision of adjunct professor...
Innovation in Legal Education
In a competition for the best oxymoron, “innovation in legal education” would surely be a contender. After all, law schools have taught students largely the same knowledge and skillset for decades, despite dramatic changes to the modern legal marketplace. One...
The National Jurist on Suffolk Law’s New Legal Technology and Innovation Concentration
The National Jurist story is here.
Suffolk Law Launches New “Major” in Legal Technology & Innovation
Suffolk University Law School has launched a new Legal Technology and Innovation Concentration, creating one of the first formal programs in the country to equip JD students with the skills and knowledge they need to compete more effectively in a rapidly evolving...
Podcast on the Suffolk/Flaherty Legal Tech Audit
I enjoyed sharing my thoughts about the Suffolk Law/Casey Flaherty Legal Tech Audit on the Legal Talk Network's Digital Edge program. The podcast is here.
A Brilliant Solution to Dead End Hyperlinks in Court Opinions and Scholarship
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Crowdsourcing What a Lawyer Needs to Know About Technology
What does a lawyer need to know about technology? Suffolk Law's Institute on Law Practice Technology and Innovation has launched this crowdsourcing site to find out. The site will help guide the Institute as it automates and enhances the legal technology audit that...
Google Glass for Lawyers
I had fun on Monday sharing my thoughts about Google Glass on WRKO. (Earlier coverage in the Boston Herald is here.) As I noted in the interview, I've been thinking about how to use Glass in the classroom ("Glass in Class"). This fall, I'm going to try taking...
Suffolk Partners with Corporate Counsel on Legal Tech Audit
We're delighted to announce that the Institute is partnering with Casey Flaherty, corporate counsel at Kia Motors America, to enhance and automate the legal tech audit that Casey recently pioneered. The purpose of the audit is to ensure that lawyers work efficiently...
Ethics, Technology, and Billing
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